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Not all environments have unfettered access to the internet to download whatever arbitrary packages the user decides they need that day. Sometimes you're stuck
by jstarfish 9y ago
Not all environments have unfettered access to the internet to download whatever arbitrary packages the user decides they need that day. Sometimes you're stuck with whatever the distro shipped with.
- kstrauser 9y agoI'm not buying that excuse. It implies machines that are installed and deployed exactly once and then never updated in any way, even for security stuff. In that case, an old version of Python would be so far down the list of problems that it wouldn't even be brought up.
- theptip 9y agoMost distros have been shipping Python3 for years, just not set as the target for `/usr/bin/python`. You can run `/usr/bin/python3` currently, almost anywhere. And "software that has been gradually going EOL for the last 5 years" is not "packages the user decides they need that day". I'd be very surprised if any distros that ship with Python2 do not ship with Python3 in 2020, and I'd even wager that most will default to python3 by then.